The New Economy Challenge for Higher Education
Address to Education for Sustainable Development Conference
By David C. Korten
It is a delight to be here in Sweden among so many friends and colleagues and a privilege to be […]
New Economy Animation Script
I’m working with my daughter Diana Korten on a 3 minute video animation we hope to distribute in November or December 2010. Diana is the over a director/producer. The intention is to make clear the distinction between the Wall Street phantom wealth economy and the Main Street living wealth economy. This is the most recent […]
Ten Essential Principles for Healthy Markets
In every aspect of civilized society we assume that mature adults will act responsibly in their relationships with others. We have rules and penalties for those who do not. Markets are no different—a fact well understood by serious market scholars. The unregulated “free market” ideal of free market ideologues is an open invitation to corporate […]
Ten Common Sense Economic Truths
The more closely I look, the more obvious it is that the Old Economy fails because it is based on false values, assumptions, and logic. Those who are working to create a New Economy from the bottom-up intuitively recognize and act on 10 common sense truths foundational to a sound economy.
Robertson Comments
Commentary from UK author/researcher James Robertson,
received December 7, 2002
Dear David,
Thank you very much for the draft of “Global Civil Society: The Path Ahead”. You asked for comments on it.
I think the draft is really excellent, but I feel it may communicate a sense of not being quite hard-headed enough. The following passage, just before the […]
Seattle: Elements of a Living Economy
by Victor Bremson
In countries such as the United States, where media and public spaces are saturated with the advertising of global corporations, the extent to which the infrastructure of prospective living economies is already in place is largely invisible to most citizens. Thus critics can easily get away with making the claim that advocates of […]
Corporate Predators and the Suicide Economy
by Victor Bremson
Retired Management Consultant and Business Turn Around Specialist
Over the last 40 years, the United States has rapidly moved from downtown main street economies populated by local independent businesses devoted to serving community needs to a global Wall Street economy dominated by huge predatory discount chains located in the middle of vast parking lots seeking […]
Awakening Cultural Consciousness
David C. Korten based on Elisabet Sahtouris
culture: (sociology) “a: the integrated pattern of human behavior that includes thought, speech, action, and artifacts and depends upon man’s capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations b: the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.”
— Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary
One […]
Living Economies: Lessons from Biology
by Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D.
New biological information on nucleated cells, multicellular bodies and mature ecosystems as cooperative enterprises challenges our ingrained view of antagonistic competition as the sole driving force of evolution, which was adopted as the rationale for capitalist competition. But, as George Soros says, “there is something wrong with making the survival of the […]
Dialogue: Sarah van Gelder
Dear David:
I think the fundamental approach is just right on your living economy piece, and I am very excited to see you moving in that direction. It is just what I think needs to be next on the agenda exploring the dynamics of the new economy and melding in a greater awareness of ourselves as […]